Testimony of Healing July 6, 1912 Issue

About seven years ago, I was stricken with the then...

George J. Stroesser

About seven years ago, I was stricken with the then prevalent disease known to materia medica as appendicitis, of which I had three distinct attacks. With the aid of our well-meaning family physician, I managed, somehow, to pull through the first two attacks without the prescribed operation, but the third attack came about two months after I was freed from the second, and was the most serious. When the physician saw my condition, immediate removal to the hospital was ordered, which was to be followed by an operation to relieve me of the offending appendix, and all food was denied me except a tablespoonful of liquid every hour.

I recall, as though it were yesterday, the whispered conversations, the tear-dimmed eyes, the silent, strained movements, and the atmosphere of gloom which pervaded our otherwise happy home. After the doctor had gone, my mother remembered that she had heard of the healing of disease without the use of drugs, and she asked me whether I wished to try this method before having the operation performed. I replied that I knew I was going to die anyway, but I preferred going into the great beyond without having part of myself cut away, and so a Christian Science practitioner was called.

When he came, he spoke about my cheerful room, about the sunshine, flowers, etc., and he handed me a book which he said I might read. I made the remark that I was hungry, but was forbidden to eat; to which he replied that God made everything and made it very good, and that I could eat anything I wanted. After he left I mentally called him a fool, for he had neither sounded my lungs, felt my pulse, nor even asked me where I had pain. And yet, something about his cheerful manner appealed to me. On his advice, though with some concern, I ate everything I wanted. I slept well that night and was able to be up the following afternoon. Three days later I went to work, and I have not heard from the appendix since.

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